Improved machine for purifying and renovating feathers



TURNER L JACKSON= Feather Renovator.

'Patented Dec. a. 1863.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR PURIFYING AND RENOVATING FEATHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,@711, datedDecember 8, 1863.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CLARK TURNER and J. A. JACKSON, of Triangle, in thecounty of Broome and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedMachine for Cleaning and Purifying Feathers 5 and we do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,ref erence being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section ofour invention, taken in the line x w, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a transversevertical section of the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. l.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

This invention consists in the employment or use of a rotatingfeather-receptacle provided with an internal steam-tube having tubesprojecting from it provided with valves, and all arranged in such amanner that the feathers may be steamed and cleaned or purified anddried in a thorough manner.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct ourinvention, we will proceed to describe it.

A represents a receptacle for feathers, which ma-y be of polygonal formand provided with tubular journals a a, which are tted on a properframing, B. The feather-receptacle A is allowed to rotate freely on theframing B, and within said receptacle there is placed centrally acylinder, C, which serves as a steam-chamber, and with the ends of whichthe journals a a communicate, as shown clearly in Fig. l. The steamchamber O eX- tends the whole length of the feather-receptacle A, andthe former has four tubes, D, extending from it at right angles, saidtubes projecting through the feather-ieceptacle A, and provided eachwith a cylindrical valve, E. These valves are operated or adjusted fromthe outer side of the feather-receptacle, and in each tube D, at a pointwithin the receptacle A, there is made a hole, b. These holes I), whenthe valves E are drawn outward, admit of the tubes I) communicating withthe interior ofthe feather-receptacle, as will be fully understood byreferring to Fig. 1.

To one side of the feather-receptacle A there is attached atoothed-wheel, F, into which a wheel, G, gears, the latter having itsshaft in the framing B, and provided at one end with a crank, H.

Iis a steam-boiler which communicates with the journals a by means of apipe or tube, J.

The operation is as follows: The feathers to be cleaned or purified areplaced in a receptacle, A, to which a rotary motion is communicated byhand or any convenient power. In order to steam the feathers, thejournal a is closed by means of a plug or other convenient means, andthe valves E drawn outward to admit of the steam escaping into thercceptacle A, where it is allowed to act upon the feathers and removeall gum and glutinous substance which adhere to the quills, and at thesame time expands the fibers of the feathers, rendering themelastic andfirm. The steam, it will be seen, is admitted into the body ot' the massof feathers in consequence of being allowed to escape near the innersurface of the receptacle, the feathers, of course, remaining at thelower part ofthe receptacle as the latter rotates. In order to dry thefeathers, the plug or stopper inthe journal a is removed, the valves inthe tubes D shoved inward so as to close the holes b therein, and thesteam is allowed to pass directly through the chamber O, as indicated bythe arrows, and the chamber radiates heat into the receptacle A, andexpels the moisture from the feathers.

The feather-receptacle A may have one or more openings, ax, made in itto admitof the escape of steam and moisture.

We do not claim, broadly, the revolving feather-receptacle andsteam-heater irrespective of the arrangement and construction hereinshown and described but,

Having thus described our invention, what we do claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is*

The revolving' feather receptacle A, in combination with thesteam-chamber O, provided with perforated tubes D D, passing into thesides of the receptacle A, and having valves E fitted within them, andall arranged as shown, to operate in the manner as and for the purposeherein set forth. i

CLARK TURNER. JAMES A. JACKSON. `Witnesses:

(J. A. SEYMOUR, M. J. SEYMOUR.

